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Pages 77-114 | Published online: 23 Aug 2006

References

  • Arago , Francois . 1865 . Historie de ma jeunesse. Précédée d'une préface par Alexander de Humboldt et suivie d'une notice complétant l'histoire de sa vie Bruxelles et Leipzig The authors seem to have based their view on Maurice Crosland's description of the election of Arago to the Académie in his The Society of Arcueil (1967, London), 163–165, where an incomplete account is presented.
  • ‘Un bagage scientifique fort lèger’ Picard E. Un double centenaire: Newton et Laplace. Leur vie et leur oeuvre. Discours … Académie des sciences Paris 1927 9 9 Arago himself admits that his scientific work to the time of his election was very slight: ‘Je ne pretends pas qu'a l'âge de vingt-trois ans mon bagage scientifique fut très-considérable’ (ibid., 147).
  • Arago . 1927 . Un double centenaire: Newton et Laplace. Leur vie et leur oeuvre. Discours … , 150 – 150 . Paris : Académie des sciences . In fact, pp. 142–150 cover the whole election and strongly indicate the protagonists' views. Crosland (footnote 1) does not make Arago's feelings plain, nor does he correct the bias against Laplace.
  • Arago . 1927 . Un double centenaire: Newton et Laplace. Leur vie et leur oeuvre. Discours … , 159 – 159 . Paris : Académie des sciences . ‘Je vois me dit M. de Laplace, qu'il ne faut pas lutter contre les jeunes gene; je reconnais qu'un homme qu'on appelle le grand électeur de l'Académie, est plus puissant que moi’.
  • Arago . 1927 . Un double centenaire: Newton et Laplace. Leur vie et leur oeuvre. Discours … , 150 – 150 . Paris : Académie des sciences . ‘M. de Laplace finit par se rendre en voyant que toutes les notabilités de l'Académie m'avaient pris sous leur patronage; et, le jour de l'élection, il m'accorda sa voix’.
  • Picard . 1927 . Un double centenaire: Newton et Laplace. Leur vie et leur oeuvre. Discours … , 9 – 9 . Paris : Académie des sciences .
  • See p. 137, n.3. For an account of Libri's depradations, see the Enciclopedia Italiana , 1949 edition Rome 20 67 68

  • Barlow , N. , ed. 1958 . The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–1882. With original omissions restored 68 – 68 . London
  • It forms the frontispiece to Ritterbush P. Overtures to Biology: the Speculations of the Eighteenth-century Naturalists New Haven and London 1964 there captioned ‘The spirit of poetry unveils the mystery of nature.’

  • Clay , R.S. and Court , T.H. 1932 . The history of the microscope compiled from original instruments and documenta London
  • Bradbury , S. 1967 . The evolution of the microscope Oxford

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